Does Avast block Maple Story and Steam?

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Hello from Maine,

I was not able to connect to “Maple Story”, they give me a very curt explanation that it is my antivirus.

I am also not able to connect to “Steam” but I think that may be due to my router.

Maybe you guys would help me out?

Here are my specs:

Windows 2000
Avast
D-Link DI-624 revC router

No other firewall software or any of that stuff, and Windows 2000 does not have a native firewall like XP does.

Thank you,
Craig

2

oops, I got Steam to work by exiting “Peer Guardian”

3

Hey! Exiting “Peer guardian” also fixed the Maple Story problem :slight_smile:

4

OK, there is possibly a clash with peer guardian and the web shield and removing one removed the clash. You could try terminating the web shield and enabling peer guardian, this should show if it is a clash between the two or if it is peer guardian (if it still doesn’t work) causing the problem.

avast isn’t a firewall (so you need one) and as such doesn’t block, the web shield just scans http traffic.

You could try this and see if it allows you to keep peer guardian enabled, but it means that the web shield won’t be monitoring that stream IP.

A way around it would be to add the IP address not domain name to the Web Shield, Customize, Basic tab, Ignored addresses: field, e.g. 123.123.123.123 you would obviously have to find out exactly what the IP address is.

5

You don’t have to do that. Just allow the specific IPs of this application and stay protected with he millions of the others.

6

Thank you both very much for the excellent info :slight_smile:

Have fun,
Craig

7

You’re welcome. Feel free to come back any time you need help you just to change experiences 8)

8

No problem, glad we could help.

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